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12 April 2009

Styling Your Hijab To Suit Your Face Shape

Usually, the face shape that hair dressers try to achieve with various cuts and styles is the oval shape as this is considered to be the most flattering. As a general rule, people blessed with a naturally oval shape usually suit most hair styles. You’re probably wondering why on earth I’m going on about hair styles and not hijab styles, well, because these rules can be applied to the hijab. First you need to discover the shape of your face:

Using a flexible tape measure, make the following measurements and write down the results:

1. Across your forehead at the widest place, about half way between your eyebrows and your hairline2. Across your cheeks from the edge of one cheekbone to the edge of the other3. Around your jawline, between where it’s widest on each side4. From our top hairline to the tip of your chin

Then compare those numbers.The most common face shapes are:

Round: Approximately as wide as it is long

Oval: Greater length than width

Long: Length is 1½ times the width

Square: Equally wide at the forehead, cheeks and jaw

Here are some tips and tricks I put together for hijab styles for round, long and square face shapes. I haven't done one for oval because most styles suit this shape, even al amiras.

First, the square with an equally wide forehead, cheeks and jaw:

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Next the round face, with rounded cheeks and chin and equally wide as it is long:

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Lastly, tips for the long, thin face where the length is about one and a half times the width:

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I hope these help! If you have any face-shape tips, feel free to post them in the comments.

60 comments:

Mariam
said...

In all honesty I find the whole 'different hijab styles to suit different shapes' this utterly hilarious. Measuring face proportions are a waste of time - there are a lot more important things that you need to take into account like the size of your forhead, shape of brows, prominence of cheek bones. Short answer: just experiment with a few styles and see what looks best. No such thing as 'wrong' and 'right' style for different shapes...

i like your blog for its useful tips & tricks.i cant seem to find your email address. thats why im using this comment to make a request. could you pls post about jumpsuit. can a hijabi wear it? how to style it? tqvm =)

Anis: Hi! Im glad you like the blog, no you wouldn't have lol, i dont post my email address online but iv already had a request about jumpsuits and the post i did is here: http://stylishmuslimah.blogspot.com/2009/02/jumpsuit.html

if you have any more requests, feel free to post them in the comments section, hope you like it :DZaenab xx

Assalamualaikum...thanx for all the tips ..they r really helpfull...Well my face is round..can u suggest any hijab style other than turkish one 4 round faces???Well i have tried the turkish one bt I really can't seem to get it right....!!! pls can u suggest an alternative???

I know this post is way old...but...exactly! I inherited my grandmums perfectly round cheeks...like the kind a little toddler girl has, they are really, round and only certain styles of hejab work for me, all others make my face look huge and way too plump.

As a teenage-before shaylahs existed for us in the west, I wore triangles and pinned under the chin and took one edge and pinned behind my head, covering my chin, so the whole affect covered up all the edges of my face and gave my face a more slender look.

I now wear shaylahs mostly as Im in KSA as an expat and have learnt how to wrap them sans underscarf and pins like a local pro...and I do a popular style which is wrap snugly and cover the chin and forhead and tuck edge behind the top of the head (Under previous wrapped piece) it also gives a very slender look to the face.

hi sister i know this post is soo last year but i wana know what shape is face. my face is like semi oval n semi circle. i hve chubby cheeks . but the way i wear my hijab is typical arab hijab style, im so used to it n i dont really know other style. soo i wonder what kind of style should i wear

Assalamualaikum!!!i have a few things to say (LOL so formal)A.) I follow your blog and its like one of the only ones that actually shows things that ppl can use...what i guess im trying to say is I LUV YOUR BLOG AHHH!B.) I made my own blog (inspired by yours) please go one and give me some feedback please :) as can please anyone who is reading this comment! we would appreciate it!here is the link: http://hijabafied.blogspot.com/we r very new to this....

Anonymous, you're so right. Unfortunately I don't think our definitions of "equality" are the same.. My definition is where both men and women have the right to not be objectified and to not be judged purely by their physical beauty, but rather by their character, personality and achievements. What's yours?

Assalamu'alaikum! Thank you! My hijabi self has been, apparently sinfully according to the salafi haraam police who like to judge the whole world except themselves, thinking about this for a while. My face is inbetween a narrow diamond and pear shape. Any ideas for this?

Please ignore the self-righteous perfect ones who love to flaunt their pious devotion for the whole world to see. A colorful hijab is much more spiritually attractive than hubris.

I have a square face ,and I wear a square hijab & rectangular,i don't care if it looks very perfect,as long as it cover my head and my neck properly & it has to be clean and not very colorful,and especially we don't have to wear those big giant things under the scarf to make the hijab looks nice , because it's haram as our prophet Mohamed peace be upon him said ,Allah make us beautiful.

You r wrong , lear islam properly first , no muslimah is stylish except in fornt of her mahram's , other than that the girl is no less than a prostitute , if required i can prove that the beloved prophet Muhammad (SAW) has also said tha same --- Mahmood